“The world’s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,” said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH Mānoa Catalogue of Endangered Languages project and a professor of linguistics in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature. “So the Catalogue is needed to support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in peril and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of conservation.”

Other UH news coverage this week includes the university’s participation in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., UH faculty experts quoted on the sale of Lanaʻi, a campaign at UH Mānoa to encourage the use of more sustainable modes of transportation, and more.